Movable eye set for dolls



July 5, 1932. s. MARCUS 1,865,475

MOVABLE EYE SET FOR DOLLS Filed July 12, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR am u e! M arcus y 5, 1932- s. MARCUS 1,865,475

MOVABLE EYE SET FOR DOLLS Filed July 12, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Samuel Marcus Patented July 5, '1932 umren STATES PATENT OFFICE SAI/IUEL MARCUS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T MARGON CORPORATION, OF NEW YQRK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK MOVABLE EYE SET FOR DOLLS Application. filed July 12, 1930. Serial No. 467,529.

This invention relates to movable eye sets for dolls.

In the U. S. patent to Samuel Marcus, 1,110,660, issued December 24-, 1929, there is disclosed and described a movable eye set for dolls in which a pair of eye members are mounted on a cross rod through the agency of intermediate members which frictionally engage and grip the cross rod. The fric- 510 tional engagement of the intermediate members with the cross rod readily permits longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the eye members with respect to the cross rod, and yet is sufficiently strong to insure that the eye members will rotate with the cross rod. The relation between the intermediate mem bers and eye shells is preferably such as to provide for a limited free longitudinal adjustnient of the eye members, so that the lat- 29 ter maf' readily adjust themselves to the eye sockets of the dolls head in which the eye set is mounted.

In the eye set disclosed in my above identified patent, the eye members included special means for supporting and mounting the same on the cross rod, in addition to an intermediate or connecting member for rotating the eye members. The eye member consequently is somewhat complex, and therefore somewhat expensive to manufacture. The primary object of the present invention resides in the provision of aneye set in which the eye members, although, cooperating with the cross rod only through the agency of an exceedingly simple intermediate or connecting member, may themselves be simple and inexpensive, and preferably in the form of plain,

approximately hemispherical eye shells, only the rim of which'need engage the intermediate member.

Self-adjustable eye sets of the general character here considered necessarily possess at least a little play or lost motion between the intermeditae or connecting member and the eye member. This play permits one of the eye members to rotate with respect to the other eye member, nad the total displacement possible, in extreme cases, may be double the M possible displacement between each eye memher and theintermediate member andv cross rod. Another object of the present invention is to reduce the maximum possible disalignment between the eye members while retaining the advantages of the general arrangement previously outlined, and to do this whether dealing with the preferred eye set using simplified eye shells or the more complex form having special mounting means.

In some eye sets herein disclosed, it is preferred to have the cross rod extend beyond the outer walls of the eye members, for with such an arrangement the problem of freely supporting a simple, hemispherical eye shell on the cross rod is greatly simplified. This desired protrusion of the cross rod beyond the eye member leads to difficulty because, first, in many dolls heads the inner wall of the head adjacent the eye sockets comes exceedingly close to the eye socket, and second, sulficient protrusion of the cross rod is de sired which will permit of a slight self-adjustment of the eye members along the cross rod, and these conditions may lead to interference between the ends of the cross rod and the inner walls of the dolls head adjacent the eye sockets. Still another object of the pres ent invention is to overcome these difiiculties and to provide the desired protrusion of the cross rod without necessitating alteration of the dolls head;

In many cases, it is desirable to avoid having the cross rod protrude from the outer wall of the eye member. This is so because any inaccuracy in locating the weight wire at the center of the cross rod when welding the same will result in excess protrusion of the cross rod from one of the eye members, and interference with the Wall of the dolls head may conse uently result. Accordingly, a still further o ject of my invention resides in the provision of an eye set which will retain the general advantages heretofore outlined, but which will not necessitate protrusion of the cross rod.

In the preferred forms of my invention, in which the eye shell consists of a plain, approximately hemispherical member, I prefer, for reasons brought out subsequently in greater detail, to have the intermediate member cause rotation of the eye member by bearing against the top and bottom edges of the rim or rear periphery of the eye member. The apertures for the cross rod are punched into the sides of the eye members at a uniform spacing from the forward or curved surface thereof, these apertures being located at the center of curvature of the eye members. The eye members are manufactured by pressing or drawing sheet material into the desired approximately hemispherical shape, and it is therefore difficult to make the location of the rim of the eye member a uniform distance from the forward or curved surface of the eye member unless special machinery is employed, or the eye members trimmed after being drawn to shape. The resulting variable distance between the cross rod and the rim of the eye member introduces difficulties which it is a further object of the present invention to overcome. One solution is to punch notches or recesses at the top and bottom of the periphery of the eye member at the same time that the apertures for the cross rod are punched therein, and to locate the forward edge of these recesses in fixed relation to the apertures for the cross rod. Another solution is to so vary the construction of the intermediate or connecting member that its position on the cross rod may be varied, in order to give it a final location which will be dependent upon the actual dimension of the eye member, the cross rod and intermediate member being locked together in proper relation while the intermediate member is in engagement with the eye member.

Other objects of the present invention reside in the provision of a generally improved and simplified eye set, and more particularly, improved and simplified eye members and in termediate members for frictionally gripping the cross rod and cooperating with the simplified eye members.

To the accomplishment of the foregoing and such other objects as will hereinafter appear, my invention consists in eye set elements and their relation one to the other hereinafter are more particularly described in the specification and sought to be defined in the claims. The specification is accompanied by drawings in which Fig. 1 is a horizontal section through an eye set embodying my invention;

Fig. 2 is a Vertical section taken in the plane of the line 22 in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of another form of eye set embodying the invention V Fig. 4 is a partially sectioned plan view through one of the eye members;

Fig. 5 is a vertical section taken in the plane of the line 55 in Fig. 3;

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view of the intermediate member employed in Figs. 3, 4, and 5;

Fig. 7 is a rear elevation of a modification;

Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of a modified eye set permitting universal adjustment;

Fig. 9 is a vertical section taken in the plane of the line 99 in Fig. 8;

Fig. 10 is avertical section taken in the plane of the line 1010 in Fig. 9;

Fig. 11 is a horizontalsection taken in the plane of the line 11-11 in Fig. 8;

Fig. 12 is a modified form of intermediate member;

Fig. 13 is a rear elevation of an eye set in which the cross rod does not protrude;

Fig. 14L is a horizontal section taken through the same;

Fig. 15 is explanatory of a feature of the invention;

Fig. 16 is a detail of the intermediate member used in the eye set shown in Figs. 13, 14, and 15; and

Fig. 17 is a section through a modification.

Referring to the drawings, it should be observed that in each case the eye set comprises a cross rod A, eye members B freely mounted thereon for movement along and around the cross rod, and intermediate members C attached to the cross rod A and operating to cause the eye members B to rotate with the cross rod A. The intermediate member C also serves to prevent the eye members B from falling off the cross rod, and more preferably cooperates with mating means on the eye members to definitely limit the permissible longitudinal motion thereof,

and for accurate rotation thereof.

The cross rod or cross wire A may be of conventional type, and preferably has attached thereto, as by spot welding, a depend ing weight arm or weight wire 12, at the bottom end of which a gravity weight (not shown) is attached for imparting the desired opening and. closing movements to the eyes. The entire eye set may be supported within the dolls head by any one of a considerable number of known supporting bridges or similar mounting means. These bridges have been omitted from the present drawings in order to simplify and clarify the drawings, and because of the fact that they may be of conventional type and form no part of the U present invention.

Considering the several specles of the invention disclosed more in detail, and referring first to that illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 ration so as to provide the same with a hub -adjusted positions.

The intermediate members are mounted at, and preferably within the eye members, in the manner shown in the drawings, and therefore operates to prevent the eyemembers from falling off the ends of the cross rod. In addition, the periphery 28 of each of the drawn eye members 14 is preferably provided with means such as the notches 30, mating with the fingers 24 and 26, in order to correctly locate the top and bottom bearing surfaces of the eye member with respect to the front curved surface and the apertures 16, and incidentally, to limit the permissible longituc inalmovementofthe eye members on the cross rod. The apertures 16 and notches 30 are preferably punched in a single operation in proper relation to the curvature of the eye members. It is important to notice that the engagement between the bearing surfaces 22 and the eye members B takes place at as wide a spacing as possible, or, differently expressed, that the radius or lever arm between the cross rod A and the point of contact of the bearing surface 22 with the eye member is as long as possible. With such an arrangement the maximum possible rotation of the eye member with respect to the cross rod is relatively slight, even if the clearance or play between the bearing surface and the eye member is appreciable, because this lost motion takes place at a substantial radius, and therefore results in but slight angular displacement. Furthermore, the use of two bearing fingers, effective at widely spaced opposed points 011 the eye shell, insures positive and close cooperation between the movement of the eye member and that of the cross rod.

The extreme simplicity of the eye members shown, is made possible largely through the fact that the eye member is supported on the cross rod simply by the apertures 16 in the opposite sides of the eye members. This presupposes some protrusion of the cross rod beyond the outer wall of the eye member, and this protrusion must be made appreciable in order to permit of the free longitudinal movement of the eye shell on the cross rod, which is desired so that the eye members will accurately seat themselves in the eye sockets of the dolls head. In many dolls heads the inner walls of the head ad:

j acent the eye socket-s, like the walls 32 in Fig. l, are quite close to the outer edges of the eye sockets. The condition is such that if the eye members B are maoe hemispherical in shape, they rest closely adjacent the inner walls 32, so that protrusion of the cross rod' A would prevent proper seating of the eye set in the eye sockets due to interference between the cross rod and the inner walls of the dolls head. This difiiculty I overcome by suitably altering the shape of the outer wall of the eye members near the apertures therein, in order to readily permit the cross rod to extendthrough the apertures. This is most simply done by bending the outer walls of the eye members inward, preferably more ly flattening the same, as is most clearly shown by the walls 24 in Fig. The inner walls 36 are preferably flattened at the same time in order to make the eye members symmaterial, and to provide more room for the l supporting mechanism in which the eye set is to be mounted.

A modified form of my invention is illustrated in Flgs. 3, 4, 5, and 6. In these figures,

it will be observed that the cross rod A similar to that al eady described, and that the eye members B are quite similar to those already described, except for slight differences subsequently explained. The intermediate members C, however, are quite dif f o-rent, for in this case the intermediate mem ber comprises a V-shaped element, the sides 40 and 42 of which are provided with apertures 44 and-46 which freely accommodate the cross rod when the sides of the V-shaped" member are sprungtogether. The member is stamped from resilient material, and the sides of the V are normally separated or urged apart by the spring action of the material.

With this arrangement, the eye member and intermediate member may readily be mounted on the cross rod, it being only necessary to compress the sides of the intermediate member together with a pair of pliers or similar tool at the time of the mounting operaerating with the periphery of the eye mem-i;

bers, thereby. causing the latter to rotate with the cross rod. Longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the eye members with respect to the cross rod is obtainable by reason of the frictional attachment of the intermediate members on the cross rod.

The periphery of the eye members may be provided with notches 52, the functions of which are similar to that of the notches 30 in the eye set shown in Figs. 1 and 2, namely,'.

to correctly locate the bearing surface of the eye member, and to limit the permissible longitudinal movement of the eye members on the cross rod. It will be noted that the eye member also carries rearwardly extend ing lugs 54. These form no part of the present invention, and are provided in order to facilitate certain of the manufacturing operations involved when making the eye members, for they serve to properly locate and orientate the same during the said operations.

In Fig. 7 I have illustrated a slightly modified form of eye member in which the lugs 5 L also take the place of the notches 52, illustrated in Figs. 3 and l. The fingers 48 and 50 are appropriately located to cooperate with the lugs 54, and so to limit the permissible longitudinal reciprocation of the eye member B on the cross rod A. The turning movement of the eye member is provided by.

direct contact of the fingers 48 and 50 with the outer edge or periphery of the eye member. This form is less preferable than those using notches, as in Figs. 1 and 3, because in drawing the eye to its cup shape, the location .of the peripheral edge varies with respect to the front of the eye, whereas in cutting the notches, the location thereof is dependent on the distance from the front of the eye, the eye being clamped in a suitable holder.

Still another form of eye set construction, permitting universal manual adjustment of each eye member with respect to the cross rod, is illustrated in Figs. 811. In this form of the invention, the eye member B comprises not only an eye shell 60, but also a closure or fitting 62 which I call a strap. The diameter of the strap 62 is preferably equal to the diameter of the eye shell 60, and the strap is provided with notches 6a through which lugs 66 on the eye shell 60 pass. These lugs are bent over against the back of the strap, thereby securely locking the strap and eye 1shell together to form an integral eye mem- The shell 60 is cut away at 68 to provide ample clearance for movement relative to the cross rod, and, if necessary, the peripheral portion 82 of the strap 62 is bent backward adjacent the cross rod, as at 86. No aperture need be provided in the outer wall of the eye shell, for the cross rod terminates within the eye shell.

Rotational movement of the cross rod is imparted to the eye member through the intermediate member G which in the present case is illustrated as having a split hub 70 and upwardly and downwardly extending fingers 7 2 and 74L for mating with and cansing rotation of the eye members. The hub 70 passes through a rectangular aperture 7 6 in the back of the strap 62, and this aperture is made wider than the thickness of the intermediate member C in order to permit of a limited longitudinal movement of the eye member on the cross rod. Manual adjustment of the eye members both longitudinally and rotationally is made possible by the fact that the attachment of the intermediate member G to the'cross rod is only by frictional engagement.

This form of the invention, while retaining some of the advantages of the first described modifications, is structurally more complex.

The added complexity is made necessary 1n the present case because it is desired to make possible a universal adjustment of the eye members. It will be noted that the middle portion is entirely free of the peripheral portion 82 of the strap 62, except for the diametrically opposed connecting links 84. These connecting links permit considerable twisting of the eye shell 60 together with the peripheral portion 82 of the strap relative to the inner portion 80 of the strap, and the resulting adjustment is not interfered with by the cross rod A, for the latter engages only the inner portion 80 of the strap, and is free from the rest of the eye member by reason of the enlarged aperture 68, and, if desired, the rearward bend 86 in the peripheral portion 82 of the strap.

The cross rod A is attached to the inner portion 80 of the strap in the following manner. The material struck from the strap to separate the inner and peripheral portions thereof is bent inwardly to form the flanges or ridges 88. These flanges terminate at the connecting links 84 and also at the cross rod the place of the fingers 72 and 7a in Fig. 9, or

the fingers 24; and 26 in Fig. 2. The frictional engagement of the intermediate member with the cross rod A is provided by reason of the resilient compression of the jaws 94 and 96 toward one another. these jaws are preferably outwardly tapered so that it is possible to mount the intermediate member on the cross rod by pushing the same transversely of the cross rod until it snaps into place. on the cross rod by pushing the end of the cross rod therethrough in a manner similar to that employed with the other forms of in- 'termediate member previously described.

The eye set shown in Figs. 8-11, besides the advantage of permitting universal manual adjustment of the eye members with respect to the cross rod, has the additional advantage of permitting the cross rod to terminate within the eye member so that protrusion of the 1 The forward end of' It may also be mounted of the eye member. 1

122 formed on the inner sides of upwardly and downwardly extending fingers 124 and 126. The eye member B is provided with notches 80 on the upper and lower periphery thereof, the inner walls of which are correctly spaced from the front of the eye member to constitute bearing surfaces for accurately engaging the bearing surfaces 122 on the intermediate member, and the side walls of which operate to limit the permissible self-adjusting longitudinal reciprocation of the eye member. The eye member is further prov ided on. its inner wall with an aperture 116 for receiving the cross rod A, but no similar aperture need be provided in the outer wall It is important to notice that the intermediate member C in this case is also pro,

vided with horizontal bearing surfaces 130 which freely engage the inside of the eye 'member at the top and bottom thereof, and hold thesame in alignment with the cross rod, in the sense that the eye member cannot drop down appreciably when viewed as in Fig. 13, even though the eye member is mounted on the cross rod by only the single aperture 116. Prior to mounting the eye set in the dolls head, the eye member may still. fall away from the cross rod in the manner illustrated in Fig. 15. This cannot happen after the eye set is mounted in place, forthe eye members are then resiliently urged into engagement with the eye sockets in the dolls head, and each eye member is then pushedbackward against the rigid and sufii- LI cient three point support provided by the aperture 116, the bearing surface on finger 124, and the bearing surface on finger 126. However, prior to mounting the eye set in the dolls head, the eye members may assume the position shown in Fig. 15, and in such case it is desirable to prevent them from escaping from their proper relation to the intermediate members C, so that the workmen installing the eyes in. dolls heads will not have to first if bring the eye members into proper relation with the intermediate members. With this object in view, the horizontal bearing surfaces 130 are made relatively long, as shown, and the length thereof is sufficient to continue if to support the eye member even when the eye member turns to the extreme cated in Fig. 15.

This eye set, it will be observed, retains all of the simplicity of the eye sets first described,

and yet dispenses with protrusion of the cross position indirod beyond the outer wall of the eye members, and consequently dispenses with the necessity of flattening the eye members away from their true hemispherical shape.

A modified form of the eye set last described is illustrated in Fig. 17. The important feature of this modification is that difierences in the depths of the eye members due to the drawing operation by which they are made may be provided for by alteration of th intermediate or connecting member C, instead of by the provision of notches or recesses in the eye member B. This important feature, while here shown in connection with that form of eye set in which the cross rod A does not protrude through the outer walls of, the eye members B, is, it should be understood, equally, applicable to eye sets such as that described inconnection with Fig; 1, in which the cross rod does protrude entirely through the eye member.

In the present form of the invention, the intermediate member C is provided with a horizontally directed slot 140 instead of a circular hole. The width or vertical dimension of this slot is made appreciably smaller than the diameter of the cross rod A, so that when the cross rod is forced into the slot, a binding fit is obtained, just as was the case in the forms of the invention previously described. However, the location of the cross rod in the slot may be varied at the time they are first forced together, and this variation may be usedto compensate for differences in the distance of the rear periphery of the eye member from the aperture in the eye member or the center of curvature thereof. In as sembling the eye set, the eye members B are held in a suitable jig. The intermediate members C are permitted to rest with the bearing surfaces 142 against the periphery of the eye members and are supported against transverse movement by the jig, and the cross rod and eye members are then relatively moved in proper alignment to force the tapered ends of the cross rod through the slots 140. The cross rod will, in this manner, form its own seat in the intermediate member, in proper alignment with the aperture in the eye member and the center of curvature of the eye member.

If, as is here the case, the eye set is to be of the type in which the cross rod does not protrude through the outer walls of the eye members, the intermediate member C is preferably additionally provided with the horizontal bearing surfaces 144 which perform the same function as the horizontal bearing surfaces 130 of the intermediate member illustrated in Fig. 16. The vertical spacing of the horizontal bearing surfaces 1 144 is made slightly less than the inside diameter of the eye member,in order to permit of the desired longitudinal adjustment of the eye member, and this longitudinal adjustment may be limited as desired by making the clearance between the bearing surfaces and the top and bottom of the eye member as large or as small as desired.

The manner of constructing and using, and the many advantages of the several disclosed forms of my invention will, it is believed, be apparent from the foregoing description thereof. The eye set may be made simply of a cross rod, a pair of plain, approximately hemispherical eye members, and a pair of simple, intermediate members for causing rotation of the eye members with the cross rod and for limiting the free longitudinal adjustment thereof. Both automatic and manual adjustment of the eye members on the cross rod is possible. Interference be tween the eye set and the walls of the dolls head is guarded against. If desired, even universal adjustment of the eye members with respect to the cross rod may be provided.

It will be apparent that while I have shown and described my invention in the preferred forms, many changes and modifications may be made in the structure disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention, defined in the following claims.

I claim:

1. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of approximately hemispherical eye members freely mounted thereon for movement along the cross rod, and an intermediate member localized at and directly afiixed to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said 1 intermediate members being independent and unconnected except through the cross rod and having bearing surfaces mating with and directly engaging the peripheries of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod while permitting a free and automatic adjustment of the eye members along the cross rod.

2. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a

pair of approximately hemispherical eye 'members freely mounted thereon for movement along the cross rod, and an intermediate member localized at and frictionally attached to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said intermediate members being independent and unconnected except through the cross rod, and having upwardly and downwardly extending bearing surfaces, and said eye members having means on their peripheries mating with and directly engaging said bearing surfaces for causing the eye tached to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said intermediate members being independent and unconnected except through the cross rod, and having upwardly and downwardly extending bearing surfaces and said eye members having means on their peripheries mating with and directly engaging said bearing surfaces for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod and for limitin the permissible longitudinal reciprocation of the eye members on the cross rod, the frictional mounting of the intermediate mem bers on the cross rod permitting longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the eye members.

4:. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members freely mounted thereon for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member localized at and frictionally attached to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said intermediate members being independent and unconnected except through the cross rod, and having a hub for frictionally gripping the cross rod, and upwardly and downwardly extending hearing fingers mating with and directly engaging the rims of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, the frictional mounting of the intermediate member on the cross rod permitting longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the eye members.

5. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members freely mounted thereon for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member friction ally attached to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said intermediate member being a resilient V-shaped element with apertures therein which frictionally grip the cross rod due to the resilient separation of the sides of the V, and upwardly and downwardly extending bearing surfaces mating with the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, the frictional mounting of the intermediate member on the cross rod permitting longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the eye members.

6. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of approximately hemispherical eye members freely mounted on said cross rod, and an intermediate member attached to the cross rod at each of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross red, the outer walls of said eye members being bent inwardly from a true hemispherical. shape in order to permit the cross rod to extend therethrough without interfering with the adjacent walls of the dolls head in which the eye set is to be mounted.

7 An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of drawn, approximately hemispherical eye members having apertures for the cross rod at the poles of the eye members, and intermediate members mounted on and turned in unison by the cross rod and directly engaging the rims of the eye members in order to cause them to rotate with the cross rod, said intermediate members being provided at the points of mounting with suitable slots for re ceiving the cross rod at any point along their length and thereby compensating for the differences in the location of the rims of the eye members with respect to the center of curvat-ure thereof caused by the drawing operation.

8. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of drawn, approximately hemispherical eye members having apertures for the cross rod at the poles of the eye members, interme diate members mounted on and turned in unison by the cross rod and directly engaging the rims of the eye members in order to cause them to rotate with the cross rod, the rims of said eye members being provided with bearing surfaces for the intermediate members uniformly related to the center of curvature, regardless of differences in the location of the rims of the eye members with respect to the center of curvature thereof caused by the drawing operation, the aforesaid intermediate members being independent of one another, being localized at each of the eye members, and being connected solely by the cross rod.

9. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members freely mounted on the cross rod for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member attached to the cross rod near each end thereof within each of the eye members, said intermediate member having upwardly and downwardly extending bearing fingers cooperating with the periphery of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, and forwardly extending bearing surfaces freely engaging the inside of the eye members at the top and bottom thereof for keeping the eye members in alignment with the cross rod.

10. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members having an aperture in the inner wall thereof freely mounted on the cross rod for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member attached to the cross rod near each end thereof within each of the eye members, said intermediate member having upwardly and downwardly extending bearing fingers cooperating with mating means at the top and bottom periphery of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, and forwardly extending bearing surfaces engaging the inside of the eye members freely at the top and bottom thereof for keeping the eye members in alignment with the cross rod.

11. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members having an aperture in the inner wall thereof freely mounted on the cross rod for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member directly affixed to the cross rod near each end thereof within each of the eye members, said intermediate members permitting a free longitudinal movement of the eye members, and having bearing surfaces cooperating directly with the top and bottom edges of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, for limiting the free longitudinal movement of the. eye members, and for keeping the eye members in cooperative relation with the intermediate members.

12. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a pair of eye members freely mounted on the cross rod for movement along and around the'cross rod, and an intermediate member frictionally attached to the cross rod at each oftheeye members, said frictional attachment permitting manual longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the intermediate members on the cross rod, said intermediate member having bearing surfaces cooperating directly with the rims of the eye members at the top and bottom thereof for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, and for keeping the eye members approximately in alignment with the cross rod while permitting a limited free automatic adjustment of the eye members with respect to the intermediate members and cross rod.

13. An eye set comprising a cross rod, a palr of eye members having an aperture in the inner wall thereof freely mounted on the cross rod for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member attached to the cross rod near each end thereof within each of the eye members, said intermediate member having forwardly extending bearing surfaces freely and directly engaging the inside of the eye members at the top and bot tom thereof for keeping the eye members in approximate alignment with the cross rod.

14;. An eyeset comprising a cross rod, a pair of drawn eye members freely mounted thereon for movement along and around the cross rod, and an intermediate member frictionally attached to the cross rod at each of the eye members, said frictional attachment permitting manual longitudinal and rotational adjustment of the intermediate members, said intermediate members having upwardly and downwardly extending bearing fingers mating with the rims of the eye members for causing the eye members to rotate with the cross rod, and having forwardly eX- tending slot moans frictionally engaging the cross rod at any point along its length and thereby compensating for the differences in location of the rims of the eye members caused by the drawing operation.

15. In an eye set, a support, a pair of simple hemispherical eye shells, a pair of connecting means frictionaily mounted on said support and arranged to directly engage the rims of the eye shells for rotatively connecting said eye shells to said support whereby said eye shells have unitary movement about an axis of oscillation, means whereby the connecting means and eye shells may be manually adjusted on and relatively to said support to various positions thereon, and means for so mounting the eye shells relatively to said connectmg means and support as to permit a free and automatic adjustment of the said eye shells in the various manually adjusted positions thereof, the aforesaid connecting means being independent of one another and being inte connected solely by the support on which they are frictionally mounted.

16. In an eye set, a cross rod, a pair of plain hemispherical eye shell members, a pair of connecting means frict-ionally adjustable on said cross rod having parts directly engaging the rims of the eye shell members connecting said eye members to said cross rod, the connecting means and eye shell members being manually adjustable on said cross rod to various positions thereon, and means for so mounting the eye shell members relatively to said connecting means as to permit a free and automatic adjustment of the said eye shell members in the various manually adjusted positions thereof, the aforesaid connecting means being independent of one another and being interconnected solely by the cross rod on which they are frictionally mounted.

17. An eye set comprising a cross rod and a pair of eye members having apertures in opposed walls thereof through which the cross rod extends, the outer wall of each of said eye members being flattened at the aperture therein to permit the cross rod to extend therethrough without interfering with the adjacent walls of the dolls head in which the eye set is to be mounted.

18. An eye set comprising a cross rod and a. pair of approximately hemispherical eye members so mounted thereon as to permit a limited free reciprocation of the eye member on the cross rod, said eye members having apertures in the outer walls thereof through which the cross rod extends, the .shape of said outer wall of each of said eye members being bent inwardly from a true hemispherical shape at the aperture to permit the cross rod to extend therethrough without interfering with the adjacent walls of the dolls head in which the eye set is to be mounted.

7 Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this 8th day of July A. D. 1930.

SAMUEL MARCUS. 

